Dempsey’s Kick – Tom Dempsey, a football player(kicker) with the Saints in 1970 kicked a 63-yard field goal to beat the Detroit Lions as time expired the longest field goal in NFL history until it was broken 43 years later.
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Don Criqui CBS Tv call with plays leading to the kick

Doubloon – A coin, approximately the size of a silver dollar, usually made of aluminum and thrown from Mardi Gras floats by the parade riders. Each Krewe (carnival organization) throws a new version each year.

Dresssed – A sandwich or po-boy, “dressed” indicates lettuce, tomatoes, pickles and mayonnaise (AKA-Mynez). Also known as “dragged through da garden”

Drive-in Theatres – You could “Do It At the Do” and other drive-in theatres in the New Orleans area, such as the Skyview, Airline, Westgate, St. Bernard and others until the early eighties. Light your pic because the mosquitos are biting and let the rest of the kids out the trunk. “And the real killer was…..The concession stand will close in five minutes!

﻿﻿Dr. John “Mac Rebennack”, ‘The Doctor” is another New Orleans music legend. Active as a session musician since the late 1950s, he gained a cult following in the late 1960s following the release of his album Gris-Gris .Rebennack has recorded more than 20 albums and in 1973 scored a top-10 hit with “Right Place, Wrong Time“.The winner of six Grammy Awards, and inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. An honorary doctorate of fine arts from Tulane University made him officially a Doctor. The Dr. also knows how to ‘tawk rite.”

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Lee Dorsey, Nationally acclaimed R & B singer, professional boxer, and body and fender man considered by many to be the “the best bondo man in town”

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David Dixon, professional sports advocate for who fought to bring pro-football to New Orleans, and the leading force behind the building of the Louisiana Superdome, a founder of the USFL, and World Championship Tennis.